Effect of Counselling on Self-Esteem and Academic Anxiety of Tenth and Twelfth Standard Students

The present investigation was carried out to study the effect of counseling on self-esteem and academic anxiety of tenth and twelfth standard students. The objectives of the study was to explore the relationship between 'self-esteem and academic anxiety of tenth and twelfth standard students. The study was to find out the relationship between selfesteem and academic anxiety of tenth and twelfth standard students. The study was experimental in nature and it was investigated by pre-test and post-test with intervention programme design. The sample size was 30 students from tenth standard and twelfth standard (18 boys, 12 girls). The group counseling programme was carried out to enhance the self-esteem to subjects. The programme duration was two weeks and two consecutive Saturday Sundays followed by a post-test. The test administered to the subject's pre-post intervention, were Karunanidhi's self esteem scale and academic anxiety scale for children by. Singh and Gupta A. Sen was used. The appropriate statistical analysis was utilized for the study. There has been relationship between self-esteem and academic anxiety of tenth and twelfth standard students, which shows negative correlation that is if the student is having low self-esteem the academic anxiety, is high for him/her. There is a significant improvement in factors of self-esteem as a result of counselling program. And the academic anxiety is reduced after the counselling programme among both standards. And the male and female doesn't differ in both the main variables even after the counseling the there is difference found.